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Sign In. Hugh Jackman Robert Angier. Christian Bale Alfred Borden. Michael Caine Cutter. Piper Perabo Julia McCullough. Rebecca Hall Sarah. Scarlett Johansson Olivia Wenscombe.

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After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. Cutter : Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".

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Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Jump to Summaries 5 Synopsis 1 Edit. After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. Set in London in the s, two rival magicians read each others diary containing the secrets of their magic tricks and personal life. As we go back in time when the diaries were written, both magicians become obsessed with their rival's best trick.

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Sign In. Edit The Prestige Robert Angier Christian Bale Alfred Borden Michael Caine Cutter Piper Perabo Julia McCullough Rebecca Hall Sarah Scarlett Johansson Olivia Wenscombe Samantha Mahurin

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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian scientist and inventor who is often called "the father of physics" for his major contributions in the fields of electricity and electromagnetism, including invention of alternating current AC electrical power. Michael Caine takes what could have been a forgettable role by any lesser actor and elevates it with his demanding screen presence. However, his eccentric personality and his bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments also earned him the title of "mad scientist," and he died impoverished at the age of Merrit as W. In his version, Angier throws his hat across the stage and walks through a door on one side of the stage, secretly drops through a trapdoor hidden behind the door frame onto a padded cushion, while a double simultaneously is hoisted out of another trapdoor behind the door on the other side of the stage to catch the hat. In the novel on which the film is based, the prestige is the spirits of the duplicate Angiers. Scarlett Johansson Olivia Wenscombe. Dancer uncredited Bud Joseph Hebert Borden claims to have created a trick that will be his masterpiece. Samantha Mahurin Jess. Buyer Andrew Jablonski When Borden comes up with an act that he calls "The Transported Man", in which he bounces a ball across the stage before stepping through a door and instantly reappears from a second door on the opposite side of the stage to catch the ball, Angier becomes obsessed with finding out how the trick works.

After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. Cutter : Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.

Edit The Prestige They have to leave suddenly in the middle of the night when their lab is burned down by Edison's goons. McIntyre Blake Pike Voice William Morgan Sheppard Their marriage is an uneven one, and she claims that when he says that he loves her, she can tell on some days he doesn't mean it. This gives Christopher Nolan ample opportunity to play. Angier says he's come to ask Tesla to build him a machine like one that he believes Tesla built for Borden -- the machine that allows Borden to do the "Transported Man" trick. Goofs When Angier visits Tesla in February, it is obviously winter, with snow on the ground. Nolan as Benjamin T. Caine as Alan Bragg Jeffrey Caruso